Hawaii Gov. David Ige heads to Japan to talk tourism with Shinzo Abe

Gov. David Ige is spending the next week in Japan discussing Hawaii as a tourism destination with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other government officials and members of the travel industry, the governor’s office said Saturday. Ige, who is traveling with his chief of staff, Mike McCartney — a previous CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority — plans to discuss with Abe and the ministers of Tourism and of Land, Infrastructure and Transport the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open…